This tutorial demonstrates how to handle exceptions in Spring 3 Web MCV.
Emphasis is given to Handling exceptions that occur during AJAX requests. I.e. in the event of an exception during an AJAX request, it is not desirable to redirect to an error page, instead JavaScript error handling code should be invoked with relevant information passed in.

A Netbeans project is available for download at the bottom of this page.

A Generic DAO suitable for Hibernate operations with Spring 3 Web MVC. More here in this separate Generic DAO tutorial.

Spring 3 Web MVC Dependency Injection (DI) and Inversion of Control (IoC). More on DI and IoC here.

Netbeans (7.1.1 used here but any version will do)

The complete Netbeans project is available for download here. The SQL for the project is included in the download in the WEB-INF folder.

Update: Jan 8, 2014

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The project originally available for download does not work with Netbeans 8 due to libraries that were in Netbeans 7.1.1 no longer available in Netbeans 8. Additionally, a comment below referencing Netbeans 7.0 .1 may suggest the same problem. This enforces the point that a dependency management utility is a much better means of building projects. To that end this project has been recreated using Maven. This ensures it will work irrespective of IDE version. In fact because it’s a maven project it’s not dependant on an IDE at all. It should work on any IDE that supports Maven. Netbeans of course, does support Maven. Here is the download link SpringHibernateCrudMvn for the Maven version of this application.

The POM is quite comprehensive in that it includes support for Spring, Spring-Security, Jackson, Hibernate, Hibernate-search and a bunch of other utilities. It can serve as a template to a certain extent.